344 reviews for:

Aetherbound

E.K. Johnston

3.46 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This book is cool.  I was looking for a quick sci-fi read that wasn't too tense, and this was perfect.  Problems were solved with minimal suspense, there wasn't a lot of jargon or hundreds of planet names to remember, and it was generally an easy read.  If you're looking for hundreds of pages and suspense, this isn't the right choice.  I enjoyed the author's style and liked that it was somewhat conversational.  I'm invested in the characters and I'm hoping for more! 

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medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

shinysylveon's review

2.0

There is an idea here, enough of one that it kept me interested till the end, but it is not nearly developed enough for my tastes. I am not saying this needed to be a 900 page epic novel by any means. However, it's a problem when I find myself frequently asking "how did we get here?" Things on more than one occasion went from point A to point D, with points B and C no where to be found. Not to mention, things almost always worked out perfectly with no inconveniences.

It was an interesting premise, but not something I would recommend.
lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Very much enjoyed it, and I would love more in this verse. Wish the content warning had been a bit more fleshed out, because the book definitely /really/ needs it.
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I see this come up in the LGBTQ+ tags and I'm not sure that's an appropriate tag. There's possibly some way of reading the major relationship as polyamorous, if you squint, but it's not really depicted as such.